Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released!
Yeah the only thing you couldn't do was to own stations or anything like that. But its safe to say that elite and its sequals are the foundation set but a lot of gamers will say that there still isn't much that came close to it. Sent from my iPhone On 21 Nov 2011, at 01:23, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Well, there were actually several different versions of Elite, but all have the same basic story or goals so I'll give you a generic description of the game. As I recall basically you are something of a priviteer picking up contracts as you go, and get rewarded for carrying out certain missions. In one mission you might dock at a space station, and you are warned that the sun is about to go nova. You can dump your cargo, and try to rescue as many people from the station as possible. If you do you get bonus credits you can put towards ship upgrades or buying another ship altogether. In another mission the galactic military is being attacked by a stealth ship, a cloaked enemy ship, and the galactic military will higher you to hunt down and destroy the cloaked ship. In another mission the Thargoids--the main bad guys in the game--swarm and takeover a space station. If you attack and destroy the station you will be given a reward for stopping the Thargoids invasion. There are various missions like that in the game. Some are rescue missions like the first one i described and others are strictly military in nature like the second and third examples I gave here. Not only that but you can mine moons, asteroids, and planets for minerals like silver, gold, and platnum you can sell for ship upgrades or a bigger and better ship. So its got a mining and trading feel to it as well. Which brings me to one of the best features which is the game has several classes of ships you can buy and use to carry out missions. If you didn't have the credits for a newer and better ship you could perform minor upgrades like swap out that wimpy pulse laser for an ion cannon, buy more powerful shields, and a docking computer to automate docking with other ships and stations.Basically, think priviteer in space and you'll get the jist. Cheers! On 11/20/11, Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com wrote: I've never played Elite, could you give me a description of the goals, scope and type of play it had? I get that it has jillions of worlds, which is very cool, but I want to know some specifics of the objectives and play of the game, if it's a popular model, to see if it fits what I want to make. Chris Bartlett --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released!
You can download a copy of both elite and elite plus from: http://www.abandonia.com/ Here are the elite search results: http://www.abandonia.com/en/search_abandonia/elite However, don't think it's accessible at all, but anyway...:) Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: darren harris darren_g_har...@btinternet.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released! Oh yeah dark, I loved elite. Used to play it on my commodore omega 500. I also played frontier elite 2 which was much much harder. Although fun because you could land on planets. I used to get the big frater ship called the panther clipper, I filled it with shield generators, this is for fun mind, then I'd take off and turn the engines off and let the ship bounce! It was rather amusing to say the least! The other thing I liked to do is to fuel scoop planets and stars. Yes elite is the father of the space sim, I miss it a great deal. It was very inventive for it's time, frontier even more so, purely because of the sheer physics involved and the size of the actual universe. It was basically the home galaxy all of it. incredible really to get over 10 stars and planets on 2 little floppies. And then of course there was the whole science thing of the hyperspace affect. What took a few seconds in hyperspace took days in real time. it was measured out according to mathematical formula. Yes we need a game that brings all the core elite elements into play. Also with a few elements from the x beyond the frontier series. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 20 November 2011 22:29 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] space stratagy games was RE: Game concepts BGT Version1.1 Released! Hi Darren. i like the idea of a space stratogy game, sinse having single player versions is very different and imho far more preferable to a multiplayer one. However, if it were a single player game I'd want it to have some significant differences from the online affairs available. elite for instance, which is possibly the most famous game of that sort, though it used textual menues for combat missions and buying and selling, actually had a fully 3D flight system. You just set the nav beacon for where you wanted and followed it in full 360 degree 3D action, dodging pirates or fighting on the way. This is the sort of thing I'd love to see in a stand alone single player game, features that really make use of what is there. Castaways for instance in it's basic map structure with grid coordinates and ticks of time is in one sense rather like soemthing like tribal wars. however, even if we ignore the fact that your opponents in castaways are dynamic according to the mission rather than thousands of online players, the game has an ai which is truly unique, and makes the management of jobs, people and resources far more interesting and dynamic than any online game could do. So, while I'd love a space trader (especially for the exploring), I'd want something more in the game than just flying, trading and possibly turn based combat, sinse Ce does many of those things extremely well pluss more. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released!
They are freeware games now the author has put them up for download so this isn't piracy before anybody asks. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: 21 November 2011 09:03 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released! You can download a copy of both elite and elite plus from: http://www.abandonia.com/ Here are the elite search results: http://www.abandonia.com/en/search_abandonia/elite However, don't think it's accessible at all, but anyway...:) Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: darren harris darren_g_har...@btinternet.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released! Oh yeah dark, I loved elite. Used to play it on my commodore omega 500. I also played frontier elite 2 which was much much harder. Although fun because you could land on planets. I used to get the big frater ship called the panther clipper, I filled it with shield generators, this is for fun mind, then I'd take off and turn the engines off and let the ship bounce! It was rather amusing to say the least! The other thing I liked to do is to fuel scoop planets and stars. Yes elite is the father of the space sim, I miss it a great deal. It was very inventive for it's time, frontier even more so, purely because of the sheer physics involved and the size of the actual universe. It was basically the home galaxy all of it. incredible really to get over 10 stars and planets on 2 little floppies. And then of course there was the whole science thing of the hyperspace affect. What took a few seconds in hyperspace took days in real time. it was measured out according to mathematical formula. Yes we need a game that brings all the core elite elements into play. Also with a few elements from the x beyond the frontier series. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 20 November 2011 22:29 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] space stratagy games was RE: Game concepts BGT Version1.1 Released! Hi Darren. i like the idea of a space stratogy game, sinse having single player versions is very different and imho far more preferable to a multiplayer one. However, if it were a single player game I'd want it to have some significant differences from the online affairs available. elite for instance, which is possibly the most famous game of that sort, though it used textual menues for combat missions and buying and selling, actually had a fully 3D flight system. You just set the nav beacon for where you wanted and followed it in full 360 degree 3D action, dodging pirates or fighting on the way. This is the sort of thing I'd love to see in a stand alone single player game, features that really make use of what is there. Castaways for instance in it's basic map structure with grid coordinates and ticks of time is in one sense rather like soemthing like tribal wars. however, even if we ignore the fact that your opponents in castaways are dynamic according to the mission rather than thousands of online players, the game has an ai which is truly unique, and makes the management of jobs, people and resources far more interesting and dynamic than any online game could do. So, while I'd love a space trader (especially for the exploring), I'd want something more in the game than just flying, trading and possibly turn based combat, sinse Ce does many of those things extremely well pluss more. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail
Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released!
Hi darren. Obviously I've never actually played elite myself, sinse even if the graphics were visible in the action sequences there would've been far too much text. So I'm all the more in favour of a similar audio game for that reason. Beware the gRue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released!
I've never played Elite, could you give me a description of the goals, scope and type of play it had? I get that it has jillions of worlds, which is very cool, but I want to know some specifics of the objectives and play of the game, if it's a popular model, to see if it fits what I want to make. Chris Bartlett --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] space strategy games was RE: Game conceptsBGT Version1.1 Released!
Hi Chris, Well, there were actually several different versions of Elite, but all have the same basic story or goals so I'll give you a generic description of the game. As I recall basically you are something of a priviteer picking up contracts as you go, and get rewarded for carrying out certain missions. In one mission you might dock at a space station, and you are warned that the sun is about to go nova. You can dump your cargo, and try to rescue as many people from the station as possible. If you do you get bonus credits you can put towards ship upgrades or buying another ship altogether. In another mission the galactic military is being attacked by a stealth ship, a cloaked enemy ship, and the galactic military will higher you to hunt down and destroy the cloaked ship. In another mission the Thargoids--the main bad guys in the game--swarm and takeover a space station. If you attack and destroy the station you will be given a reward for stopping the Thargoids invasion. There are various missions like that in the game. Some are rescue missions like the first one i described and others are strictly military in nature like the second and third examples I gave here. Not only that but you can mine moons, asteroids, and planets for minerals like silver, gold, and platnum you can sell for ship upgrades or a bigger and better ship. So its got a mining and trading feel to it as well. Which brings me to one of the best features which is the game has several classes of ships you can buy and use to carry out missions. If you didn't have the credits for a newer and better ship you could perform minor upgrades like swap out that wimpy pulse laser for an ion cannon, buy more powerful shields, and a docking computer to automate docking with other ships and stations.Basically, think priviteer in space and you'll get the jist. Cheers! On 11/20/11, Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com wrote: I've never played Elite, could you give me a description of the goals, scope and type of play it had? I get that it has jillions of worlds, which is very cool, but I want to know some specifics of the objectives and play of the game, if it's a popular model, to see if it fits what I want to make. Chris Bartlett --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
